A biometric identification procedure usually contains two stages: registration and authentication. Most biometric systems capture multiple samples of the same biometric trait (e.g...
Yong Li, Jianping Yin, En Zhu, Chunfeng Hu, Hui Ch...
Traditional video scene analysis depends on accurate background modeling to identify salient foreground objects. However, in many important surveillance applications, saliency is ...
Brian Valentine, Senyo Apewokin, Linda M. Wills, D...
Distance measures, along with shape features, are the most critical components in a shape-based 3D model retrieval system. Given a shape feature, an optimal distance measure will v...
Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Jun Kobayashi, Akihiro Yamamoto,...
The spherical harmonic (SPHARM) description is a powerful surface modeling technique that can model arbitrarily shaped but simply connected three dimensional (3D) objects. Because...
Heng Huang, Li Shen, Rong Zhang, Fillia Makedon, J...
The use of surface harmonics for rigid and nonrigid shape description is well known. In this paper we define a set of complete hemispherical harmonic basis functions on a hemisph...
Heng Huang, Lei Zhang 0002, Dimitris Samaras, Li S...